Претура Валегоцулівського району, с. Валегоцулове Волинського р-ну Одеської області

These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Included are directives, instructions, and orders of the Romanian civilian and military authorities on restrictive measures regarding Jews located in the territory of Transnistria. A significant number of documents concern Jews located in ghettos and labor camps. These include an inventory of items plundered from the Jewish population of the Valegotsulovo district (f. R-2366, 1943). The documents are in Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian.